Help me understand: why is bulletproof coffee healthy?
Specifically, it has a really, really low micronutrient:calorie ratio. My understanding is that these calories funge against calories from food that would have a much, much higher micronutrient:calorie ratio. Of course, it’s probably better than, say, donuts, with their high glycemic load, wheat which may or may not be bad, and other assorted “goodies”, but that’s a pretty low bar. By the time you’re investing that amount of resources into bulletproof coffee, my intuition is that you can come up with something that does all the good things that bulletproof coffee does without eating several hundred essentially “empty” calories.
I’m not a medical doctor and what I know comes from blogs, podcasts, twitter, and general audience books so don’t take this too seriously.
Coffee seems to be one of the few foods that has significant proven health benefits. But most coffee contains harmful micro organisms. Bulletproof coffee supposedly has far fewer of these toxin producing organisms. MCT oil and butter from grass fed cows supposedly has lots of great stuff in them.
I only consume fats until about 4:00 pm to promote autophagy which is what you body does when it goes into starvation mode. Bulletproof coffee contains only fats, and fats do not inhibit autophagy as carbs and protein do. Autophagy, from what I have read, is fantastically beneficial.
Your argument is reasonable, although I’m skeptical that benefits from autophagy outweigh a likely micronutrient deficiency. Romeo_Stevens suggests intermittent fasting, which would give you the autophagy benefits without losing micronutrients. The obvious failure mode is not having energy to get through the day, although I remember spending a few weeks around finals de facto intermittent fasting and having perfectly reasonable energy levels.
I take bulletproof coffee to enable my intermittent fasting, which I define as going without carbs and protein. There is a transition period while your body becomes fat adapted. Also, if you do paleo like I do, there are a lot of calories to make up from need eating grains.
Help me understand: why is bulletproof coffee healthy?
Specifically, it has a really, really low micronutrient:calorie ratio. My understanding is that these calories funge against calories from food that would have a much, much higher micronutrient:calorie ratio. Of course, it’s probably better than, say, donuts, with their high glycemic load, wheat which may or may not be bad, and other assorted “goodies”, but that’s a pretty low bar. By the time you’re investing that amount of resources into bulletproof coffee, my intuition is that you can come up with something that does all the good things that bulletproof coffee does without eating several hundred essentially “empty” calories.
I’m not a medical doctor and what I know comes from blogs, podcasts, twitter, and general audience books so don’t take this too seriously.
Coffee seems to be one of the few foods that has significant proven health benefits. But most coffee contains harmful micro organisms. Bulletproof coffee supposedly has far fewer of these toxin producing organisms. MCT oil and butter from grass fed cows supposedly has lots of great stuff in them.
I only consume fats until about 4:00 pm to promote autophagy which is what you body does when it goes into starvation mode. Bulletproof coffee contains only fats, and fats do not inhibit autophagy as carbs and protein do. Autophagy, from what I have read, is fantastically beneficial.
Your argument is reasonable, although I’m skeptical that benefits from autophagy outweigh a likely micronutrient deficiency. Romeo_Stevens suggests intermittent fasting, which would give you the autophagy benefits without losing micronutrients. The obvious failure mode is not having energy to get through the day, although I remember spending a few weeks around finals de facto intermittent fasting and having perfectly reasonable energy levels.
I take bulletproof coffee to enable my intermittent fasting, which I define as going without carbs and protein. There is a transition period while your body becomes fat adapted. Also, if you do paleo like I do, there are a lot of calories to make up from need eating grains.